June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...

Corey Powell, co-chair of the Lubbock Juneteenth committee, says the freedoms fought and died for many years ago should never ...

It was a celebration with meaning as people came out late Thursday afternoon for a Juneteenth Celebration at Lions Park in Austin. A large group from the public came out to take part in community fun ...

But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black ...

Biden said at the time that June 19 serves as a "day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery ...

Our neighbors kicked off 160 years of Juneteenth celebration in Mexia with a parade. The nation's newest federal holiday!

CHARLOTTE, NC — From Uptown to University City, Juneteenth celebrations covered Charlotte on Thursday. The story of Juneteenth began 160 years ago when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to ...

Clad in a striking peach outfit color-coordinated right down to her fingernails and taking no prisoners, Vallejo's first poet laureate blasted out her poem "Galveston" at the Juneteenth flag-raising ...

Five years ago, the nation recognized the first Juneteenth. It marks the day in 1965 when Union soldiers went to Galveston, ...